Secession and Self-Determination: NOMOS XLV

by Stephen Macedo (Editor), Allen Buchanan (Editor)

Overview

The many questions that surround movements for secession and self-determination are both practically urgent and theoretically perplexing. The United States settled its secession crisis in the 1860s. But the trauma and unfinished business of those events are still with us. Around the world secession and self-determination are the key issues that cause strife and instability.
This volume provides an unusually comprehensive consideration of the many challenges of law and political philosophy that accompany them, and offers theoretical insights that provide guidance for policy. Among the questions considered are: should the international community recognize a right to secede and, if so, what conditions must be satisfied before the right can be asserted? Should secession and its conditions be recognized within domestic constitutions? Secession is the most extreme form of political separation and there are modes of self-determination short of it, including indigenous peoples' self-government and minority language rights. To what degree can these intrastate autonomy arrangements help ameliorate the injustices faced by indigenous groups?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781479885428
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	12/01/2003
Series:	NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy , #26
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	335
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Stephen Macedo is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Allen Buchanan is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Duke University.

Table of Contents

CONTENTSPreface ContributorsIntroduction Allen BuchananPART I: THE RIGHT TO SECEDE1. International Responses to Separatist Claims: Are Democratic Principles Relevant?Diane F. Orentlicher2. A Right to Secede? Donald L. Horowitz3. Democratic Principles and Separatist Claims: A Response and Further InquiryDiane F. OrentlicherPART II: INTRASTATE AUTONOMY4. An Historical Argument for Indigenous Self-Determination Margaret Moore5. Indigenous Self-Government Jacob T. Levy6. Exploring the Boundaries of Language Rights: Insiders, Newcomers, and Natives Ruth Rubio-Marín7. Can the Immigrant/National Minority Dichotomy Be Defended? Comment on Ruth Rubio-Marín Alan PattenPART III: CONSTITUTIONALISM AND SECESSION8. Domesticating Secession Wayne Norman9. The Quebec Secession Issue: Democracy, Minority Rights, and the Rule of Law Allen Buchanan10. Secession, Constitutionalism, and American Experience Mark E. BrandonIndex